CCIE Contract Job Trends in London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 308 324
Rank change year-on-year -37 +16 +153
Contract jobs citing CCIE 28 51 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.36% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% 1.40% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 33 44
10th Percentile £301 £351 £252
25th Percentile £362 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £566 £700 £600
90th Percentile £603 £750 £688
England median daily rate £525 £580 £510
% change year-on-year -9.48% +13.73% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £37.50

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

CCIE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,156 3,647 4,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.29% 25.88% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,900 2,279 2,913
10th Percentile £363 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £656
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 58 93
10th Percentile £19.94 £20.88 £18.81
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.79 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCIE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

CCIE job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in London over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCIE

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the London region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -5 3 £525 -6.83% 3
West London -16 2 £405 +15.71%
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 4 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) JBoss
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) MS Visio
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) IaaS
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (67.86%) Firewall
2 17 (60.71%) BGP
2 17 (60.71%) OSPF
3 15 (53.57%) WAN
4 14 (50.00%) VPN
5 12 (42.86%) Network Security
6 10 (35.71%) LAN
6 10 (35.71%) SD-WAN
7 8 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (17.86%) BIG-IP
8 5 (17.86%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (17.86%) EIGRP
8 5 (17.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 5 (17.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (14.29%) VoIP
10 3 (10.71%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (10.71%) MPLS
10 3 (10.71%) VXLAN
10 3 (10.71%) WLAN
11 2 (7.14%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Retail
3 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Billing
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Network Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Architect
3 9 (32.14%) Network Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Firewall Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Security Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) VML
2 2 (7.14%) Jinja
3 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Migration
2 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) Change Management
3 6 (21.43%) ITIL
3 6 (21.43%) Security Architecture
3 6 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (21.43%) TOGAF
4 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.86%) Runbook
5 4 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (10.71%) Agile
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Low Latency
6 3 (10.71%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (75.00%) CCNP
3 6 (21.43%) JNCIE
4 5 (17.86%) CCSE
4 5 (17.86%) JNCIP
5 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 2 (7.14%) CCDE
7 1 (3.57%) CCDP
7 1 (3.57%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (3.57%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (3.57%) CCNA
7 1 (3.57%) CCSM
7 1 (3.57%) CISSP
7 1 (3.57%) CWNA
7 1 (3.57%) GIAC
7 1 (3.57%) GSEC
7 1 (3.57%) MCITP
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.57%) VCDX
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.57%) KVM
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Ansible
2 6 (21.43%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (85.71%) Cisco
2 11 (39.29%) CheckPoint
3 9 (32.14%) F5
4 6 (21.43%) Arista
4 6 (21.43%) Juniper
4 6 (21.43%) Meraki
5 5 (17.86%) Aruba
5 5 (17.86%) Remedy
5 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
5 5 (17.86%) Zscaler
6 4 (14.29%) Fortinet
6 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 4 (14.29%) Palo Alto
7 2 (7.14%) VMware
8 1 (3.57%) Citrix
8 1 (3.57%) Google
8 1 (3.57%) IBM
8 1 (3.57%) Oracle
8 1 (3.57%) SAP
8 1 (3.57%) SonicWALL